Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss the opportunity." In 2017, scientists spotted our solar system's first ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

The skies over Liverpool looked different for a couple of hours this morning, with an astrological event making it look like a "bite" had been taken out of the sun. The partial solar eclipse ...

When we are young, we often live with an “illusion of permanence”. Friendships, careers, possessions, and even our own health seem as though they will last forever. We invest heavily in people ...

Long before the Earth formed, the universe was full of gases left over from the Big Bang. New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed early signs of light breaking through this ...